I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. Eleanor Roosevelt

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault. Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.Eleanor Roosevelt

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.Eleanor Roosevelt

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.Eleanor Roosevelt

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.Eleanor Roosevelt

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.Eleanor Roosevelt

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.Eleanor Roosevelt

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.Eleanor Roosevelt

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.Eleanor Roosevelt

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!Eleanor Roosevelt

If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.Eleanor Roosevelt

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.Eleanor Roosevelt

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.Eleanor Roosevelt

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.Eleanor Roosevelt

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.Eleanor Roosevelt

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.Eleanor Roosevelt

So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.Eleanor Roosevelt

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.Eleanor Roosevelt

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.Eleanor Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt

The giving of love is an education in itself.Eleanor Roosevelt

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.Eleanor Roosevelt

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.Eleanor Roosevelt

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.Eleanor Roosevelt

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.Eleanor Roosevelt

Understanding is a two-way street.Eleanor Roosevelt

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.Eleanor Roosevelt

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.Eleanor Roosevelt

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.Eleanor Roosevelt

What is to give light must endure the burning.Eleanor Roosevelt

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.Eleanor Roosevelt

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.Eleanor Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.Eleanor Roosevelt